Darya Zhuk
Director
Belarus-born award-winning film director Darya Zhuk has been obsessing over filmmaking long enough to see her short films selected at SXSW, Tarkovsky, Oaxaca, Atlanta, Palm Springs, Koroche, Santa Fe Independent film festivals, to name a few. She is a graduate of Columbia University MFA program in Directing. Darya lives and creates between Minsk and Brooklyn. In 2015, she won the best female writer/director award from New York Women in Film and Television for her short film The Real American. Her feature debut Crystal Swan screened in the East of the West Competition at Karlovy Vary IFF 2018 and won the Grand Prix at the Odesa International Film Festival.
Born1980-04-26
Place of BirthMinsk, Belarus
Known For
6.3
Russian Affairs
DramaMystery
6.6
Little America
DramaComedy
6.4
The Premise
ComedyDrama
8.0
The Real American
DramaComedy
6.7
Crystal Swan
Drama
6.0
The Air Inside Her
Drama
Through the Eyes of Others
Drama
7.0
Eat the Tourists
Comedy
5.0
Wax
DramaRomance
7.0
What Doesn't Kill You
ComedyDrama
Our Breasts Are Our Weapons: The History of the Femen Movement
Drama
6.0
Half-Life
DramaAdventure